Health IT

Dear Clara,

If you haven't already, you ought to connect with Jose Gomez Marquez at
MIT's Innovations in International Health <http://iih.mit.edu/> lab. They
are doing tons of the most interesting stuff I've seen in your area of
interest.

Best,
Anup

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Dear Clara

Are you considering also eHealth systems?

Dear, Clara Aranda
I am working on a research on Appropriate Medical Devices - preferably
innovative approaches to deliver healthcare in developing countries.

Check nejm article coauthored by Michelle Barry-car seat, leg immobilizes , baby warmer.
Also CDC rabies for dRIT TEST for rabies dx , doesnn't require fluoorescent microscope

Bob Dedmon MD MPH

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Robert,

May you please share the articles' titles

Jhon Camacho

References, as requested. I'm traveling, so computer limited.

best wishes,

RED


1. NEJM-2011;SEP 1:Health Technologies and Innovation in the Global
Health Arena
Sidhartha R. Sinha, M.D., and Michele Barry, M.D.

2. LEMBO,T. _www.cdc.gov/eid_ (http://www.cdc.gov/eid) 2006.12(2):310.
Evaluation of a
Direct, Rapid
Immunohistochemical
Test for Rabies
Diagnosis
Tiziana Lembo,* Michael Niezgoda,†
Andrés Velasco-Villa,† Sarah Cleaveland,*
Eblate Ernest,‡ and Charles E. Rupprecht†

I'm copying a message sent from Prof. Gari Clifford.


Clara,

Your posting was forwarded to me. Leo and I started work on Sana about 4
years ago, and about 2 years ago I took a faculty position in Oxford where
I run a research group developing low cost monitoring technologies and
health informatics data mining tools.
Some of our projects include screening tools (software and hardware) for
heartsounds, lungsounds, ECG, respirometry, blood pressure, pulse ox,
actigraphy, video. We look at Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD),
cardiovascular disease (CVD), sleep, mental health, neonatal apnea, amongst
other issues.
All of the applications are aimed to be connected through mobile
phones/tablets to a back-end medial record system (i.e. using Sana) for
expert review and later machine learning applications.

What are your interests / ambitions in this area?

Best

Gari

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Dr G. D. Clifford
University Lecturer & Associate Director
Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford, UK
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~gari

Joaquín
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Gerente de Desarrollo, eHealth Systems <http://www.ehs.cl/>
Research Fellow, Escuela de Medicina de Harvard <http://hms.harvard.edu/>
Moderador, GHDOnline.org <http://www.ghdonline.org/>

Thanks for the references Robert.

Jhon

Hello,
I invite you to look over our wide range of maternal neonatal health technologies that are developed as appropriate technology with end users from developing countries in mind.
See: www.path.org
We employ a robust product development and commercialization strategy in order to advance technologies to improve health around the world. I'd be happy to talk further off line if you wish. Cheers, Trish Coffey (Social Scientist/Senior Program Officer, Technology Solutions, PATH)

Hi Everyone

Great thread. I would encourage you all to check out Maternova's Innovation Index (http://maternova.net/health-innovations), which tracks over 125 technologies that are aimed at improving maternal and neonatal health in resource-limited settings. The Index lists and explains technologies in development and those on the market. It's sortable by purpose (preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic), condition (anemia, jaundice, etc) and other indicators.

Thank you!

Meg Wirth
Emily Ellison Fallon

Thank you very much to everybody...During my research, I have come accross with all of your project. I will collect the information and get back to you individually to ask you some more specific questions about your projects.

Thanks again to everyone!

Clara, here is a web link to the Serval Batphone for communication by mobile phones in disaster areas and where communication towers are down. It is a non profit organisation. http://www.servalproject.org/archives/category/serval/batphone A/prof. Terry Hannan

Clara, I am a student in Kenya and we develop mobile applications for mobile phones (basic to advanced)I have developed an application for HIV/AIDS patients for community health workers and their patients for ARV prescription.

I am willing to share information on how it works.

John Mbithi

Large survey of 280 projects across multiple sectors, including business models. 


The least successful in terms of number of failed pilots? mHealth

http://www.hystra.com/opensource/Hystra_Rapport_ICT_for_the_BoP.pdf

Leo, that is an extremely interesting report. I'm attaching it here as a resource

The project “Leveraging ICT for the BoP” is an effort to broaden the understanding of the range of possible ICT-based services bringing development to the poorest population, the Base of the Pyramid (BoP). The Next 4 Billion is the four billion people living on an annual per capita income that is less than $3000 in purchasing power parity (PPP).

ICT has become an ever-present feature in the developed and developing worlds in the past decade, including in projects that are “only” increasing connectivity; rather we focus on projects offering value-added ICT services with a development impact. For the sake of feasibility, we limited our scope to 4 sectors of “development” where ICT has already shown it could play a key role: healthcare, education, agriculture, and financial services.

This investigation has focused on market-based solutions. Public investment, subsidies, multilateral spending and charitable giving all figured in ICT-based approaches to development around the world. This study highlights launched by for or not for profit actors that acknowledge the fact (now popularized by the inventors of micro credit) that the poor do pay for service, as well as ...

Leo, that is an extremely interesting report. I'm attaching it here as a resource

The project “Leveraging ICT for the BoP” is an effort to broaden the understanding of the range of possible ICT-based services bringing development to the poorest population, the Base of the Pyramid (BoP). The Next 4 Billion is the four billion people living on an annual per capita income that is less than $3000 in purchasing power parity (PPP).

ICT has become an ever-present feature in the developed and developing worlds in the past decade, including in projects that are “only” increasing connectivity; rather we focus on projects offering value-added ICT services with a development impact. For the sake of feasibility, we limited our scope to 4 sectors of “development” where ICT has already shown it could play a key role: healthcare, education, agriculture, and financial services.

This investigation has focused on market-based solutions. Public investment, subsidies, multilateral spending and charitable giving all figured in ICT-based approaches to development around the world. This study highlights launched by for or not for profit actors that acknowledge the fact (now popularized by the inventors of micro credit) that the poor do pay for service, as well as the realization that giving things away for free makes people value them less, and thus possibly compromises the sustainability of the approach.

Hi All-

You might also be interested in the compendium of selected medical devices prepared by WHO, if you have not seen it yet.

http://whqlibdoc.who.int/hq/2011/WHO_HSS_EHT_DIM_11.02_eng.pdf

Regards,

Amir

A good read - I'd be most concerned about the environmental impacts of e-waste.

Is anyone specifically working in this area? I've become interested recently in more active (finer-grained) environmental monitoring of coral reefs around island nations or smaller-scale island communities.

I'd be interested in finding collaborators interested in integrating this specific type of spatial data into broader public health analytical data sets (perhaps as part of a broader data warehouse initiative?), perhaps also as part of a (more) real-time biosurveillance initiative, which could arguably address various other epidemiological research objectives.

It would need to be a more infrastructure-oriented data initiative, with lots of emphasis on new data standards development, and also with a heavy platform-orientation in terms of prototyping, etc.

I'm not sure how conducive this approach is to an agile methodology, but maybe spiral or some other hybrid is a good way to get started.

I would like to share with you the call for innovative technologies, recently launched by the WHO. Similar to the previous one, technologies need to be addressing problems for delivering healthcare in low-resource settings, please find more information at:

http://www.who.int/medical_devices/innovation/mde_2ndcall/en/index.html

Regards, Clara

Sana Winter Session on Android Programming at MIT
10AM-12PMDaily Jan. 27th - Feb. 3rd
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Pre-registration and attendance of first meeting required.  Listeners allowed.  Prior Java and Android experience helpful but not required.

Description: Sana (sana.mit.edu) is an MIT organization with the mission to improve healthcare delivery for rural
underserved populations. Sana provides an open-source Android-based
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care delivery.  The end-to-end system seamlessly connects health workers to medical professionals.

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Participants will design and develop extensions to the Sana software
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